A password manager is a utility which helps users store and retrieve passwords and other data. Here’s our open source recommendations.
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7 Best Free and Open Source Linux Disk Encryption Tools
Keep your data safe. There are many different useful tools that offer disk encryption. Here’s our recommendations.
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Linux Cybersecurity: What You Need to Know
Linux is an excellent choice for anyone who wants to improve their cybersecurity. Here’s what you can do to improve your cybersecurity.
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Linux at Home: DIY security solutions for the home
Here’s our recommended open source solutions to create your own Linux-based surveillance system. ZoneMinder, Motion, and Kerberos.io are featured.
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9 Best Free Linux Digital Forensics Tools
Digital forensics is a specialist art. It allows investigations to be undertaken without modifying the media. Being able to preserve and analyze data in a safe and non-destructive way is crucial when using digital evidence as part of an investigation, and even more so when a legal audit trail needs to be maintained. Digital forensics can be used in a wide range of investigations such as computer intrusion, unauthorised use of computers including the violation of an organisation’s internet-usage policy, gathering intelligence from documents and emails, as well as the protection of corporate assets.
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29 Excellent Ways to Manage Your System – Essential System Tools
This is a series of cornerstone articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems.
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Essential System Tools: Firejail – Excellent Security Sandboxing
This article looks at Firejail, a SUID sandbox program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces, Linux capabilities and seccomp-bpf.
Read moreLKRG – Linux Kernel Runtime Guard
Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) is a loadable kernel module that performs runtime integrity checking of the Linux kernel and detection of security vulnerability exploits against the kernel. As controversial as this concept is, LKRG attempts to post-detect and hopefully promptly respond to unauthorized modifications to the running Linux kernel (integrity checking) or to credentials (such as user IDs) of the running processes (exploit detection).
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6 Best Open Source Firewall Solutions
Security is paramount. Security involves defense in depth. Approaching security one step at a time, with consistency and rigour, you can mitigate threats, and keep intruders at bay.
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5 Best Free and Open Source Linux Port Scanners
Linux has a good range of port scanners that help administrators identify and rectify weaknesses in a system. To provide an insight into the software that is available, we have compiled a list of 5 of our favorite port scanners.
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